Commented Feature: Enter commands into npm command line instead of just viewing output [1033]

Would be great if you could do everything (like npm publish) from VS instead of switching to a separate window every time you want to do something unsupported by the UI
Comments: Yep - generic command prompt that's linked to the UI. But it would be nice to contain it in the package manager UI because it would reduce the number of windows you have to juggle for a single scenario. The command line is awesome when you know exactly what you want to do, and the UI is awesome for exploring and comparing packages. What if we integrated the UI and console more dynamically (similar to console/html view tabs in IE dev tools)? For instance... let's say you want to install a few packages... * you already know the name of the first package, so you bring up the console view directly. "npm i ..." * You don't know the name of the second package, so you enter a query into the search bar to start browsing, and install the next package w/ UI command (linked to console) * You use the search bar to find the third package, decide to enter some custom arguments... and with one click you're back in console view with "npm install <package-name> --save" pre-populated so you don't even have to worry about misspelling it